Hickman High School - Cresset Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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The Cresset, 1915 I EUNICE HAZARD Teachers Training Course I am loved because I am 3? RETTA CROSSWHITE Salutatorian Commercial Club First Prize in Bookkeep- A ing and Penmanship Commercial Club Second prize Shorthand - and Typewriting Unto such power of intel- lect the gods themselves throw incense g KARLEEN CRUMP A lovely damsel, beautiful and fair A PERRY LOREN H ow often men of greatest I genius are lost in ob- scurity VERDA HUGHES f For she was just the quiet kind amiable HARRY HULEN- Washee Help Wanted Play Baseball, '14, '15 C Club Study never claimed him for her own FRANCIS ST. CLAIR- Shorty ' Basket Ball ' So light of feetg so light of spirit A LILA GREENE Maiden with the meek brown eyes Like the dusk in evening skies MAURINE LAWRENCE- Morphine Teachers Training Course Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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The Cresset, 1915 lVlARTHA DOUGLASS-- Linkhead Virgil Play . Soft fell her 'words as flew the air LUCILLE BLASER A good student and has many friends MARY KELLER. Sosweet to hear, so farr to see BRACE BAILEY As proper a rnan as one shall see on a snrn- n1er's day RHODA DRUMM Virgil Play A booster, not a knocker JOSEPHINE BERKEBILE Qmck and happy 'Ls she ALICE PRATT T he rnrldest mann-ers, the gentlest heart

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22 The Cresset, 1915 Senior Class History A MODERN VERSION OF THE PILGRIMIS PROGRESS S I plodded through a wilderness of Latin riddles, I lighted on a certain difficult sentence, and over that sentence I dozedg and, as I dozed, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw an urchin standing in a certain place, and a lady named Instructoress point with her finger over a broad plain and ask, Do you see yonder wicket gate and yonder shining light? Christian, Qfor such was the urchin's namej answered that he didg whereupon the Instructoress said, Keep that light in your eye and go directly thereto, so shalt thou see the gateg at which, when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do. And I saw in my dream that Christian began to run. Many pilgrims of the Seventh Grade came out to see him run, and, as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return. He looked not behind him, but fled toward the shining light. When Christian told them he sought a land incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, Sloth, a fellow schoolmate said, My heart inclineth me to go with- my school fellow. So the two journeyed on together, while many others remained behind in the land of the Seventh Grade. And Christian spoke and said, We shall go to a land which shall have creatures who will 'dazzle your eyes to look upon. There, also, shall you meet with thousands and tens of thousands that have gone before us to that place. There will be the Freshmen pilgrims, who will be our companions. There will be Sophomore pilgrims, junior pilgrims and Senior pilgrims, none of them hurtful, but loving and gentle. There shall we see beautiful maidens with shining eyes. And Sloth was much pleased and they hastened on through the wicket gate. Now, I saw in my dream, that in their progress onward, they drew near a very miry bog which was in the middle of the plain. And, being heedless, fell suddenly into this slough, which was no other than the Slough of Despondency, otherwise known as the first mid-year examination. Here they wallowed for a time, being grievously bedaubed with dirt. At this, Sloth was greatly offended, and angrily said to his fellow, Is this the happiness of which you have told me all this while? In thisslough poor Sloth was lost, sinking lower and lower till he was finally engulfed and never heard of more. Christian, however, with a few desperate struggles, succeeded in wading out of the mire, a pitiable spectacle indeed. Here I was awakened for one brief instant, but soon I dozed. And as I dozed, again I saw Christian start on the second lap toward the City Celestial. Now as Christian was plodding along by himself one day, he espied one far off, come crossing over the plain to meet him. And it was their hap to meet just as they were crossing the way of each other. The name of the pilgrim who met Christian was Mr. junior Worldly Wiseman. This pilgrim beholding Christian's laborious going, by observing his sighs and groans and the like, guessed where he was going and said, Hear meg I am older and wiser than thou, thou art like to meet, on the way which thou goest, Darkness, Painfulness, Wearisomeness, Hunger, Perils, and, in a word, Death and what not. These things are true, having been confirmed by many testimonies, so turn your steps backward. But Christian paid no heed. He toiled yet onward, and cometh to the third lap of the journey to the Celestial City. And I saw in my dream, as he wended his way through the wilderness that Christian saw a town before him, and its name was Vanity. And at this